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As an ex high school wrestler, I will be the first to admit that wrestling is probably the gayest looking activity that one can part-take in other than actual gay sex. That said, it was really fun and honestly, when you're in the middle of a match with literally hundreds of people watching you, several of them your teammates, the first thing on your mind is how to beat your opponent. Asking yourself "how gay do I look doing this?" is not relevant at that point in satisfying that primal urge flooding your reptilian brain that is in all of us to dominate, win, and impress your clan, especially when they're screaming at you to win. However, when you're WATCHING someone wrestle as opposed to wrestling yourself, it looks, well, just look at the picture.

I second this. Wrestling is by far the most combative school sanctioned sport. The rules have evolved to make it safer but it's still a descendant of the ancient Greek olympic sport where there would be two naked dudes and they would...

...god damn it.

Edit: I want to state for the record that I wrestled for 13 years and I don't actually think it's gay. Whats that saying about being able to laugh at yourself?

satisfying that primal urge flooding your reptilian brain that is in all of us to dominate, win, and impress your clan

Holy shit yes. I couldn't agree more. I used to wrestle, and it is absolutely crazy how much you find yourself breaking down what you perceive to be your limits in order to win. I think another big part of it is that you know that in the end, the result of the match is because of you. You can't blame anyone else for your failures, you can't credit anyone else for your victory. It's an awesome feeling of achievement when you can pull it off. One of the most satisfying moments in my life at school was pulling off a massive reversal in the third period to pin a kid from our rival school.

There was one girl I remember at 113 that tried to be a hardcore feminist and prove that girls could wrestle with boys. The kid we had going up against her was nervous because he had never gone up against a girl and didn't know "where to grab." Long story short, he ended up pinning her within the first 50 seconds.

As a former HS wrestler who was seeded and ranked in public and privates for three states in 05-06, I can't agree on the looks. It is, however, the lingest 6 minutes in sports. It's easy for anyone to call it gay or laugh, but to sign up and fight your heart out as a freshman against a PG named Marco at a tournament who effortlessly wiped the mat with your face, then get back up and train? Train until you're the best you can find, until you have a 35-3 record, all pins because you won't accept a point victory, and won't embarrass an opponent with a technical fall, to reach out after every ass whooping (even when you're asked to wrestle up 3 weight classes) and reach out a hand to help your opponent up? That, right there, is solid. That's the epitome of combative sport.

haha. I am bi and as a kid (before I realized I liked dudes as well as girls) I joined wrestling. LOVED IT. Thought I finally found a sport I could get into. Had no idea till later I was just a little perv enjoying getting up close and personal with some of the more athletic boys in my grade. :p

Wow I kinda think I would have enjoyed it more if we had those kind of uniforms, instead of just shorts and t-shirts.

Homo here - I don't think so. Alot of gay kids are very far from acknowledging or even realizing they're gay. Hetero boys are actively encouraged and expected to want to feel up cheerleaders, and have a much clearer picture of what they want, because their brain is aligned with what everyone in their world is telling them.

Hetero here - it's pretty fucking creepy, just as a gay man joining a wrestling team to feel up guys is really fucking creepy. We're expected to like women, but that doesn't mean we're expected to grope them at every chance we get. There's a good reason behind a large majority of male cheerleaders being gay.

The premise is that he wasn't fully aware of his intentions. So he wasn't joining just for that, if you had asked him then or even if he asked himself then, he wouldn't have said he joined to be physical with guys. And who's to say that didn't play a part in your own motivations? Peoples actions aren't binary, there are many reasons people do one thing, not just one.

I'm gay and this is why I kept my distance as much as possible on wrestling day in high school gym class. Oddly enough the only person to ever notice (or at least say something about) my sudden oddly placed third hip became my best friend and the first person I came out to.

Im also gay, and i just avoided sports altogether. Being around the other guys seemed cool until it came time for the locker room and i had troubles not staring. Long story short, if you cannot control your urges, maybe you should take up tennis. Lol

Yeah well I am EXTREMELY jealous of gay/bi friends who somehow found and came out to other gay/bi guys when they were 19-14. They could just have a sleep over, and once the door was closed do anything they wanted.

I am not hugely regretful or anything, I just know there would have been much more of a rush and intensity if I could have started exploring my sexuality at that age.

I got hit on by a closeted (and I think still at least partially closeted) wrestler. Actually somewhat well known. Happened right after highschool got out and I was about to move away. I was too chicken to admit I was gay or do anything about it.

I still fantasize about him wrestling with me and pinning me down and ahem, well, dirtymoney posted some warmup pictures :o.

Anyone who needs to rely on move where you need to stick your finger in another mans asshole to ensure a victory is lacking in both talent and class. They need to go back to the practice room and work on some real moves and their sense of sportsmanship.

You're not sticking your finger in someones ass. You are reaching around and grabbing whatever you can get a grip on and yanking, it just so happens that humans happen to have a very very convenient handle there.

Sure, kids do all sorts of shit in practice. But if you've someone in a front headlock and are specifically aiming for a half inch wide target when you want to transfer to go behind, you're doing it wrong.

When I first stated grappling (BJJ), I was one of the smallest guys on the mat, so I would get paired with the girls a lot. One of which I dated for 3 months.

I don't think I ever had a sexual thought while fighting them. When someone is trying to control you, dominate you in a violent manner, there's really no time to think about any sort of intimacy. You're moving and reacting and surviving and attacking. In jiu jitsu, if you stop to think about sexy times or fear about looking gay you're getting choked the fuck out or your arm ripped off. I imagine wrestling is the same, but way harder because the people that compete in that are wayyyyy more conditioned and explosive.

I should have chosen my wording better. What I meant was - they are practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, where full guard is a fundamental thing. The full guard is as queer as a three dollar bill, and can easily compete with many of the queerer wrestling poses.

I'm a grappler (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu). People who make the gay joke about wrestling or grappling all think they are incredibly clever. They don't seem to guess that the first, most obvious joke that comes to their minds also comes to everybody else's, which just makes them look like this guy. It's probably a lot like being from Australia and being asked if you ride kangaroos to work.

As a wrestler, there is really no other sport more masculine and hetero than wrestling. Mabey MMA, but that involves a lot of wrestling and BJJ positions. When i'm wrestling someone, the last thing on my mind is intimacy; wrestling is a martial art. I wish some of the people outside the community of wrestlers would grow up past their immature, homophobic, prepubescent, jr. high phase and see the beauty in it.

For perspective, I've wrestled for over 20 years all the way up to the Olympic level. If this seems gay to you, then you may have some homosexual tendencies. There is really nothing gay about this picture. hips are back, hand around the waist.. nothing sexual at all. There are MUCH worse positions in wrestling that you could have chosen. Finishing a wing, finishing a half, double grapevine,getting split, butt drag, crotch lift.. the list goes on.

Its very clear to me that you may need to look within yourself and possibly come out of the closet.. or maybe age past 14.

id also like to note that the #1 thing I hear about wrestling after high school isn't that it looks gay, but peoples regret for not entering the sport.

As a fellow who wrestled in high school, I can't deny that in general the whole exercise is pretty gay looking. But I can tell you this: there are few things hotter than watching the chicks in the lower weight classes wrestling at a tournament.

I believe it is the kid-in-the-rear's hand being on top of the kid-in-the-front's hand that makes it as gay as this looks.

I wrestled in high school, and it took a while for me to even understand that people thought this looked gay. The kid in the front's hand is where it is because if they were actually wrestling instead of posing, he would be trying to tear the other kid's hand off his stomach so that it can't be used to control his body's movement.

So Gay = Funny? As a gay guy and a human being I find this post offensive. Why do we have to infuse every benign situation with sex? It's not because we're having alot of it, I can tell you that! It's a picture of two boys touching, not kiddie porn, you 1200 perverts. What exactly is WTF about that? Your own deep seated shame is the motivator for finding everything you see as sexually inappropriate - and shame is a VERY unhealthy thing to have in your head.

HAHA IT'S SO FUNNY CUZ WRASSLIN IS GAY!!!! Because kicking the shit out of some fucking stranger while you both sweat and bleed on the mat and off the mat you both have eating disorders to stay at your fucking weight class sure is gay as shit.